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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Agathosma betulina (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Buchu; Honey Buchu; Mountain Buchu
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CIS-CARVEYL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
CIS-LINALOOL-OXIDE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
CITRONELLOL 15 Leaf Essent. Oil *
CITRONELLYL-ACETATE 2 Leaf Essent. Oil *
COBALT 2 Leaf 87.0 0.22 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CYMOPYROCATECHOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
D-LIMONENE 19 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
DEC-CIS-4-ENOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DEC-TRANS-4-ENOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DELTA-TERPINEOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIHYDROCARVONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIOSMETIN 13 Leaf Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
DIOSMIN 34 Leaf 200.0 500.0 *
DIOSPHENOL 4 Leaf 1800.0 3600.0 0.71 *
DIOSPHENOL 4 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIOSPHENOL-METHYL-ETHER 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIOSPHENOLENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIPENTENE 7 Essential Oil CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
DL-PIPERITONE-EPOXIDE 0 Leaf 1425.0 2375.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DL-PIPERITONEPOXIDE 0 Leaf 1425.0 2375.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hepatoprotective 5 *
Hepatotoxic 4 Lewis, E.J. and Friedrich, E.C. 1989. The Essential Oil of Poliomintha incana. Planta Medica 56(2): 224-226, 1990.
Herbicide 10 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Histaminic 1 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 1 Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic 9 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 6 *
Hypolipidemic 2 *
Hypotensive 7 *
Hypothermic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Immunomodulator 7 *
Immunostimulant 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Immunosuppressant 1 Martindale's 29th
Inhalant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 *
Inotropic 1 *
Insect-Repellent 1 *
Insecticide 12 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.